20170607 - 328 Group Meeting by Anderson

Do's and Don't's on writing

NO PLAGIARISM

• NO duplicated data from other submissions, e.g., in the submission of conference abstracts or other papers, is used in it
• NO overlap in terms of any texts, figures, plots, pictures. ALL the data, figures, drawings, schematics, texts, etc. are appearing for the first time in the manuscript.
• ALL works from our own group and other groups are sufficiently cited

Conference abstracts/proceedings

• Please avoid any figures, pictures or plots that you plan to publish in journal articles in future. Publishers may not allow them.
• Lease avoid any figures, pictures or plots that have been published in journal articles; when we publish manuscripts, we have given the copyrights to the journal. If you have to use these figures, pictures or plots, we need to first seek the approval from the journal for the right. And also seek approval from the conference, to avoid being charged with plagiarism.
• Best is to have short abstracts and with fairly preliminary figures, pictures, data that you know for sure cannot be used in journal articles in future!

Do's and Don't's for writing

• Do
  • Write shorter sentences (e.g. <20 words): one point per sentence
  • Use verbs
  • Anchor each sentence with the next

    Each sentence must have one thing related with the first one.

  • Assume your readers know nothing
  • Specify concrete facts
• Don't
  • Rely on adjectives
  • Use jargons
  • Misuse "... and ...", "... or ...", etc.
  • Start a sentence by "Fig. XX shows..."

    A sign of laziness. Add more descriptions.

** Remeber: Make every word count!**

A few words about figures

• Make every space count!
• Go through your figures, and see whether there is any space that is redundant.
  Paper from:Topological defects in epithelial govern cell death and extrusion. Nature 544, 212-216 (13 April 2017)